• Title
  A. L. Gordon [portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ca.1860 (ca. 1880 photographic copy of carte de visite)] / J. Weller
• Creator
  J. (James) Weller, active 1865-1891
• Call number
  P1/653
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1880 (photographic copy of ca. 1860 carte de visite)]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  134289
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - 16.5 x 11 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For biographical information see Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.4, pp.267-269
• Scope and Content
  1 cabinet card photograph
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1860s (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4216053
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "A. L. Gordon. Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone,
  Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own" -- in a later hand at lower edge
  
  Inscription compared with a letter written by Adam Lindsay Gordon in June, 1863. Reference: Adam Lindsay Gordon's Australian Poems / edited by Charles R. Long. Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs, [1933] (p.4). Location number: 821.8/G662.1/5 Mitchell Library
• Date note
  
  Cabinet card photograph is a later print taken from an earlier cartes de visite ca. 1860s -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, Jan 1997
• Conservation note
  
  Damaged at upper and lower right corners
• Name
  Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833-1870
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  poets
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1660685

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